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A Modern Build of a Medieval Spring Pole Lathe by Badger on October 6, 2006 Home Sign Up! Explore Community Submit A modern build of a medieval spring pole lathe by badger on October 6, 2006 Table of Contents intro: A modern build of a medieval spring pole lathe . 2 step 1: Beginning the project . 4 step 2: Lathe details - Uprights . 5 step 3: Lathe details - Head and Tail Stock . 6 step 4: Lathe details - building the spring pole . 7 Related Instructables . 8 Advertisements . 8 Customized Instructable T-shirts . 8 Comments . 9 http://www.instructables.com/id/A-modern-build-of-a-medieval-spring-pole-lathe/ intro: A modern build of a medieval spring pole lathe I study medieval woodworking a lot, and I've always wanted to try out the medieval style lathe. The major difference between this type, and the modern lathe is that the motion is reciprocal, rather than continuous circular motion. That, and the fact that it is totally human powered. The back and forth motion of a "spring pole" type lathe has been used well past the 1600's era that I study, and in many places is still in use today. The whole idea behind a Spring Pole lathe is that you would pinch a piece of wood between two points, wrap a cord around the wood, and pump down on a treadle while putting your cutting tool to the wood. On release, the springy pole attached to the top of the rope would pull up, spinning the wood backwards, and making it ready to be pushed down again and cut. Here is my build process as posted in my woodworking blog: http://wood.box23.net -- Badger http://www.instructables.com/id/A-modern-build-of-a-medieval-spring-pole-lathe/ http://www.instructables.com/id/A-modern-build-of-a-medieval-spring-pole-lathe/ step 1: Beginning the project It’s begun! Something I’ve been wanting to work on for a while now. I want to build a spring pole lathe, modelled after the medieval reciprocating lathe design that was used for hundreds of years to do lathe turning. The pictured chunks of wood are the two uprights, that will hold two lengths of 2×4 Pine (might updgrade that later, but I have some in the shop right now) I’ve had these 4×4 posts sitting around for a long time, always waiting for a project. I finally decided to get started. At first I had visions of making a flywheel lathe, but it’s a lot more complicated, so I decided to start out with a more period design anyway. I’m hoping to make it portable enough to take to events and do demos with. We shall see. I cut the notched by hand, instead of using a bunch of power tools. Somehow it just seems fitting. Steps so far: 1. Cut the posts to 44? lengths. This should give me 38?-39? of leg room underneath to power the lathe. 2. Marked the depth of the cuts with my Rosewood Cutting Gauge that I got at Woodcraft a while back. It’s a thing of beauty. I measured it so that I would be able to fit a width of 2×4 down between the two cross bars. I’ll be using 2×4 to construct the “poppets”, sort of a free floating head and tail stock. 3. Marked the width, and clamped it in my vise. (I want a bench vise. Reallllly badly.) 4. Using my Japanese pull saw, I cut the notch sides, and the two more paralell cuts down to the marked lines. This makes chiselling out the waste easier. 5. Using a 1? bench chisel I cut out the waste with taps of a hammer 6. Cleaned up a little it with a wood rasp, but for the most part the chisel did the heavy lifting. Notes: Easier than I thought it would be. I thought it’d be lots of work, but it was pretty easy. I got the technique from watching the Woodwrights Shop. Best show on TV for woodworking. Bar none. I did crimp and break my japanese pull saw blade though, this makes me sad. I went in a little crooked, and it bent. Ugh. I love this saw, it’s probably been the best tool in my shop for a while. It makes nice thin cuts, easier and cleaner than a standard american style “push” saw. Fortunatly, I can buy replacement blades. It’s the one marked B in the photo below. I think that saw has partially changed the way I do wood working, I kid you not. Time to get my butt down to Woodcraft to get a couple more blades. Going to buy a backup, just in case. Next step, the cross bars, drilling holes and mounting lag bolts, and building the head/tail stock “poppets”. Then all it needs is tool rest, and some kind of “spring pole” to power it. I’m thinking bungie cord. Not very period, but it allows me to adjust it to find the right amount of “spring” and find a springy pole these days is a bit harder than wandering out in the back woods and cutting one. Not so much on the back woods these days…. Pity. http://www.instructables.com/id/A-modern-build-of-a-medieval-spring-pole-lathe/ step 2: Lathe details - Uprights Over the next few steps, I’ll be detailing the rest of the build out of the “spring pole” lathe I built last weekend. I was able to complete it fairly quickly, and I snapped some cell phone pictures along the way. This step will feature th buid out of the uprights, and attaching the crossbeams. As you can see in the above picture, the uprights are attached to a sort of “A” frame to hold them up. This design came about for two reasons. One, it’s based on a period (1583) drawing of a lathe I found. Two, it’s a practical and easy to build method of holding the beam up. I grabbed some 2×4, and just started cutting what felt right in terms of lengths based on what I had on hand. I want to be able to break it down and travel with it, so each upright needed to be able to stand up independently and be self contained. The angled pieces are cut with a 45 degree angle on the table saw, and screwed into place with long wood screws. The beam upright rests on the horizontal 2×4 which extends a little bit out from the base for stability, but not getting in the way. The cross beams are Douglas Fir 2×4. I took a standard 8? one, and cut it in half to create a 4? bed for the lathe. Subtract a little bit for the head and tail stock, and you have about 3.5? feet of workable area. To attach them to the uprights I fit the 2×4 into the notches, and clamped it down. I then drilled a couple of holes through the 2×4 and upright for the bolts I was going to use. I drilled it pretty close to the size of the bolts for a tight fit, which turned out to be too tight. So I had to drill it out a bit bigger to allow a little wiggle room to get the bolts throught. Once the crossbeams are bolted on, the whole frame is quite rigid, and very sturdy. That’s it for this step, next step will cover the head/tail stock, making the centers, and more. http://www.instructables.com/id/A-modern-build-of-a-medieval-spring-pole-lathe/ step 3: Lathe details - Head and Tail Stock This step will cover the creation of the head and tail stock for the “spring pole” lathe project. To make the stocks themselves, I just bolted together chunks of 2×4 to create a solid head stock. To make access to the piece of turning easier I cut the two side pieces with a 45 degree cut to give it a diagonal access to the area. The length of the middle piece was determined by measuring above the crossbeams about 8? (the height of what I thought might make a good turning area. (close to 16? diameter turning area seemed more than enough.) The bottom part I picked a sizable tail to it, so I could cut a mortise into it for clamping to the cross bars, and left some below that to give it some strength (I will draw up plans later with exact measurments.) The size and depth of the notches in the uprights gives me a gap between the crossbars that a 2×4 fits into. The two short pieces (8?) screwed to the side of the middle, longer piece rest on the crossbars. when I fit a wedge into the mortice in the tail of the headstock, it locks the stock to the crossbars and is quite immobile. To put the mortice hole in I used Fornster bits a bit wider than the width of the wedge I am using. I used a piece of Maple I had sitting around because I figured it would hold up better being pounded in and out all the time. I made the hole go above the bottom of the crossbars so that the wedge would lock against the underside, and not top out against the stock. I also angled the bottom of the mortise with a chisel to approximatly fit the angle of the wedge. My wedges ended up being different sizes but they both work quite well.
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